Kiribati

Promoting Nutritious Food Systems in the Pacific:

Kiribati National Action Plan

The participatory creation of the National Action Plan during the Fiji Forum aims to provide tailor-made approaches in order to tackle specific in-country challenges and make use of opportunities at national level for agribusiness and value chain development.

The plan addresses four key themes:

1. NUTRITION: Reduction in NCDs and food imports and increased income from investments made in the development of local food crops and fisheries value chains

Impact Aims: Increase household dietary diversity and production and sale of fresh and processed local food crops and fisheries.

Impact Aims: Increase access to and adoption of ICTs in agriculture and agribusiness with a focus on smallholder farmers, women and SME.

Key Innovations/ Critical Success Factors: 2nd service provider received licence (healthier competitive environment, KV): Government commitment to improve internet connectivity on the outer islands: most are expected to have internet by end of 2018/early 2019.

4. INSURANCE – Robust Insurance Package for Farmers

Impact Aims: To increase awareness of key stakeholders on the importance of insurance for mitigating weather and other risks to agriculture and agribusiness development.

Are you interested in the Agriculture-Nutrition Nexus in Kiribati? Download the report below which includes an overview of organisations working on agriculture, food and nutrition; the policy and institutional framework and key recommendations on how to strengthen the Agriculture-Nutrition Nexus in the Marshall Islands.